Long Practice Chanter (fully printable) for Highland Bagpipe

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08-25-2018 - INFORMATION I DONT RECOMMEND TO PRINT THE REED it is really hard to make it work properly. If you do want to print it, make sure to print them in the direction a made the STLs they are correct. Please dont buy Ninjaflex just to make a reed. This is a long Practice Chanter to learn how to play the great highland bagpipes. After the great succes of my small Practice Chanter I decided to improve this nice instrument by making a long version from scratch. Features: Fully printable Printable functioning Chanter Reed The boreholes are counterbored to give a feeling of a real Chanter It has the exact same size like a real Chanter No postprocessing, just assemble it and play! The #MakeItLoud challenge gave me the motivation to make this Practice Chanter fully printable, including the Chanter Reed. The challenge was to "make it loud" so I tested and reprinted the reed to make it as loud as possible and but at the same time keep the right pitch. The loudness I reached was 94 dB for the Chanter Reed and 90 dB for the Practice Chanter. I am very happy with the result. This instrument is not only loud,but it sounds great and looks nice (I think :D ) Checkout my challenge video:https://youtu.be/z9EdZDCtcP0 UPDATE 24.11.2015 -Added a splitted version for those with a smaller Printer Print Settings Rafts: No Supports: No Resolution: Chanter: 0.2mm / Reed 0.3mm Infill: 30% Notes: Materials: Orange Parts: Ninjaflex (make sure to use Ninjaflex otherwise the parts are not working!) White Parts: PLA Black Parts: PLA Perimeters: Black parts: 3 perimeters and 5 bottom and top layers Reed_Lips: 15 perimeters All other parts: 2 perimeters How I Designed This The most difficult part was to make the Reed. I made about 20 different versions until I was satisfied with the pitch and the loudness. You can see the first reed version in the picture. For the Practice Chanter itself I had to make 4 different versions, until all the measurements and each pitch fitted.